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Flinders Island (Queensland)

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43: 275: 50: 200:, which once, prior to the destructive advent of settlers, lugger crews in the late 19th century colonial period, numbered an estimated 200 people. It became one of the earliest centres for recruiting local hands for the pearling trade. These people were still shot or raped at gunpoint as late as the early 1900s. 203:
There is a major residential site on the sandspit. The island is a popular tourist destination with an anchorage point for yachts. Flinders Island is an integral part of the mythological complex of the Flinders Group.
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formed part of a multi-lingual cultural complex extending from Bathurst Head to
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Queensland
Flinders Island is located in Queensland
Coordinates
14°10′48″S 144°15′36″E / 14.18000°S 144.26000°E / -14.18000; 144.26000
LGA(s)
Cook Shire Council
State electorate(s)
Cook
Federal division(s)
Leichhardt
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
Cape Melville
Bathurst Bay
Denham Island
Flinders Group National Park
Stanley Island
Owen Channel
Maclear Island
Fly Channel
traditional owners
Cape Melville
Flinders Island language


Peter Sutton
'Science and sensibility on a foul frontier: At Flinders Island, 1935,'
Bruce Rigsby
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Queensland
protected areas

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